jlh@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) (06/17/89)
I got the new ROM and INIT for my DaynaFile today, performed some surgery, and restarted by Mac II. Lo and behold, everything, even that CD-ROM player, worked. Two complaints now: 1. Why didn't Dayna send a mailing to it's registered owners telling them about this KNOWN problem and offering an upgrade to those who needed it? I spent most of a sleepless night trying to figure out what device was causing my problem. 2. The CD Explorer disc that Apple shipped with the drive is bad. It crashes and hangs the SCSI bus in strange ways. I had no trouble with Phil & Dave's Excellent CD (the developer CD), and I tested both the Mac OS stuff and the audio-only stuff. So, Apple - what's wrong with your demonstration disc? Y'know, I'm beginning to think this CD-ROM player is more trouble than it was worth... Jan Harrington Scholastech Telecommunications husc6!stech!jlh or allegra!stech!jlh ************************************************************************* Miscellaneous profundidity: "No matter where you go, there you are..." Buckaroo Banzai *************************************************************************
dxjsb@dcatla.UUCP (Jack S. Brindle) (06/19/89)
jlh@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) writes: > 2. The CD Explorer disc that Apple shipped with the drive is bad. It crashes > and hangs the SCSI bus in strange ways. I had no trouble with Phil & > Dave's Excellent CD (the developer CD), and I tested both the Mac OS stuff and > the audio-only stuff. So, Apple - what's wrong with your demonstration disc? Gee, mine plays just fine. So does everyone else's that I have spoken with. With the conglomeration of inits and other stuff (that is the only way Dayna's code can be described) I wonder if maybe you are still having interference problems? But in any case, don't accuse Apple of shipping bad disks when 99.999% of their disks are right, and you can't absolutely assure the problem is theirs! On the other hand, I have come across a rather interesting problem with ResEdit and the CD-ROM. While playing an audio CD, invoke ResEdit V1.2 (the release version). If you have ResEdit set to display locked disk warnings, you will get an alert telling you the CD is locked. Click OK. Next reach for the reset switch to get your Mac useful again. Mine (a plus with 2.5 megs of Ram) drops into MacsBug, but locks up before MacsBug can draw much of its info. It is possible that I too have too many inits hanging around, but I wonder if others have seen this problem. The cure is quite simple. Simply tell ResEdit not to display locked disk warnings. That sure made me happy. Especially since I was listening to the Doobie Brothers new album at the time. Sounds great! Just wish CD-Roms were as cheap as audio CDs. Jack B.